Irish Housing and Renting Crisis Worsens
The chances of first-time buyers in the Republic being able to afford houses or apartments of their own continue to worsen and rents move eternally upwards while Government inaction ensures that no improvement is in sight. A particularly good analysis of the root causes and the continuing ones was given in an article by Dr. Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor/ Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University. He is the author of Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it (Policy Press, 2020). Some pertinent quotes from his article capture the overall position.